Re: delete ligature support for Arabic "la" from the less(1) command line

2019-09-09 Thread Ali Farzanrad
Hi Ingo, Thanks for your effort in unicode support. I hope my feedback as a native Persian would be helpful. Ingo Schwarze wrote: > If i understand correctly, xterm(1) does indeed have that problem. > I prepared a test file that contains, in this order, > > - some Latin characters > - the

Re: delete ligature support for Arabic "la" from the less(1) command line

2019-09-01 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hello Mohammadreza, Mohammadreza Abdollahzadeh wrote on Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 09:40:16AM +0430: > Persian is my native language and I think that the major problem that > all RTL (Right-To-Left) languages like Persian and Arabic currentlly suffer > from is the lack of BiDi (Bidirectionality)

Re: delete ligature support for Arabic "la" from the less(1) command line

2019-08-31 Thread Mohammadreza Abdollahzadeh
Hi Ingo, Persian is my native language and I think that the major problem that all RTL (Right-To-Left) languages like Persian and Arabic currentlly suffer from is the lack of BiDi (Bidirectionality) support in console and terminal environment like xterm(1). KDE konsole(1) support bidi and that's

Re: delete ligature support for Arabic "la" from the less(1) command line

2019-08-31 Thread Evan Silberman
Ingo Schwarze wrote: > I have no idea how many of those work in konsole(1) - but i'm sure > none of those, except the four LAM WITH ALEF discussed here, work > with less(1), so i think support for LAM WITH ALEF provided no value > in the first place. The way it is implemented, with an ad-hoc

delete ligature support for Arabic "la" from the less(1) command line

2019-08-31 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, i have to admit that i am neither able to speak nor to write nor to understand the Arabic language nor the Arabic script, but here is my current, probably incomplete understanding of what our less(1) program is trying to do with Arabic ligatures. If somebody is reading this who is able to